The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of November, Which the friends of the late Ex-Provost Rough ...
Good & Evil Poems (1819 Poems)
Johnnie Sayre (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I felt The remorseless ...
The Good Man in Hell (Edwin Muir Poems)
If a good man were ever housed in Hell By needful error of the qualities, Perhaps to prove the rule ...
In Arthur’s House (William Morris Poems)
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land (William Morris Poems)
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt) (William Morris Poems)
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
Invocation To The Muses (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The Singing-Woman From The Wood’s Edge (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Unde Malum (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Where does evil come from? It comes from man always from man only from man - Tadeusz Rozewicz Alas, dear ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Child of Europe (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
The Wanderer (John Masefield Poems)
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Seth Compton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Jonathan Swift Somers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Psalm 07 (John Milton Poems)
Aug. 14. 1653. Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him. Lord my God to thee I flie Save ...
Justice Denied In Massachusetts (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Let us abandon then our gardens and go home And sit in the sitting-room Shall the larkspur blossom or the ...
Sonnet 23 (John Milton Poems)
XXIII Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son ...
Henry Clay’s Mouth (Thomas Lux Poems)
Senator, statesman, speaker of the House, exceptional dancer, slim, graceful, ugly. Proclaimed, before most, slavery an evil, broker of elections ...